It’s always so wonderful to watch communities come together to build something magical, and the latest rendition of taBURNak! was no exception. 

TaBURNak! is the Montreal Burning Man Decompression and this year was it’s ninth edition. 

Started by a tiny community of Burners who had come back from Burning Man an wanted to find others of like mind to connect with, this event has grown year over year. 

I was one of the event and art coordinators for a majority of years of this event, and its been so beautiful to watch this community grow. 

Photo by Yannick Carlier

Photo by Yannick Carlier

When I first connected with this community, there were almost no Burning Man theme camps that were based out of Montreal and only a tiny population who had ever been to playa.

 Now, thanks to the growing excitement of the community, we have a local regional Burn, we have several strong theme and sound camps, art teams and a solid group of humans who have gone to “Mecca,” and other regionals. 

There was so much excitement over this year’s rendition of taBURNak! that we were able to have an entirely new group of people running the event. We had a team that was organizing the event for years and, although we loved it, we were tired. It was so inspiring to be able to hand it over to an entirely new crew of individuals who felt the inspiration to carry it on. 

They knocked it out of the park! It was so beautiful to watch this stellar event get passed on to a new generation of Burners. 

“

We Are All Stardust

,” made its last appearance at this event and it was so amazing to watch it be filled with people all night long. 

I love that I got to bring this installation back to its home city before retiring it to make something new for this next season! 

Thanks to the amazing team that pulled this off and all the incredible burners who attended to rock it out with family. Can’t wait for the years to come!

Photo by Owen Wiltshire